Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Did you plant the squash from the seeds you saved? Like @CntryBoy777 squash plants will cross pollinate.

I use new seed every year except for things I only plant one of like my okra. I have been using the same strain of okra seed for almost 30 years.

 

[RollingAcres]

I have been using the same strain of okra seed for almost 30 years.

Wow nice!

 

[Mike CHS]

Maisy has upped her human training program. One day last week it was pouring rain and didn't look to be letting up for quite a time and it was Maisy's feeding time. Maisy won't eat when I go out to feed her until she has what she considers to be enough loving. Then she will eat but if I leave she will stop eating so I stick around till she's done. That day I let her out and went down to the house for her to eat and I groomed her while we were there. Ever since then when I take her food out she will walk up to the gate and sit there waiting for me to open the gate. Then she will walk down to the house and sit by the lawn furniture waiting for me to feed and groom her. When we finish up she will walk back up to the pasture and wait for me to let her back in with her sheep. I was trying to get a decent picture of her this morning and when she came up for a closeup I swear she was laughing at me. She has been keeping her jaws muddy digging for a Ground Hog who has had the audacity to come in her pasture.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

She's awesome! They really do have us trained, lol!

 

[CntryBoy777]

She has always been a Beauty Girl!!....she is very "deserving" of her "attention"....

 

[Baymule]

That is funny. You'd better not do anything that you don't want to keep doing for perpetuity. Maisy is waaaaay too smart!

 

[Bruce]

Yep, and so is Mike, he learned the lesson the first time Maisy taught it to him. Such a good student.

 

[RollingAcres]

Maisy is so pretty and sure had you trained well @Mike CHS !

 

[Mike CHS]

Today will be a full day. We are going to separate the rams out of the younger flock of lambs so we can consolidate all of the ewes and move them to fresh graze. It looks like the Tennessee Katahdin Association may be having their fall meeting and sale in Pulaski which is close to us so we will save some of our commercial ewes and the two registerable ram lambs for that sale.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got the ram lambs separated and on fresh pasture and rotated all of the ewes to some fresh grass so they are happy. We also pulled fecal samples from quite a few but even those that were looking a bit out of condition at the last check were looking much better and they have been on grass only. We didn't run them all across the scale except for the lambs that we will be selling. We did run the ewe senior ewes across and there were several that were 160-to 175 pounds. The first born lambs have the size to breed but they aren't old enough yet so they get a couple more months of growing time before letting the ram in.